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Employee Assistance Director (Inst)

Job Group: Human Resources
Job Subgroup: Employee Services
Salary Range (Annual): 27: $84,800-173,360
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: HR001
  • Job Summary:
    Develops, implements, and oversees the Employee Assistance Office (EAO) and related functions to best provide help and assistance in a confidential manner for all employees and affiliates dealing with personal problems that may impair their job performance, to retain the institution's workforce. Supervises staff.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Provides direct professional counseling services to employees and affiliates as needed
    • Develops policies and procedures to assist management in dealing with employee medical/behavioral problems
    • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
    • Serves as a unit liaison and subject matter expert to internal and external stakeholders providing information and representing the interests of the unit to align with strategic objectives
    • Develops and audits the unit budget and monitors program utilization
    • Evaluates counseling and treatment programs and facilities and recommends improvements to leadership
    • Develops and delivers counseling trainings and informational materials to various audiences
  • Education:
    Master's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    Yes
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    Yes
  • Employee Category:
    Academic Staff
  • Scaled Job:
    No
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    27: $84,800-173,360
  • Job Code:
    HR001: Employee Assistance Director (Inst)
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=HR001

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